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Heber MacMahon

Irish bishop (1600–1650)

Summary

Irish bishop (1600–1650)

Field	Value
type	Bishop
name	Heber MacMahon
title	Bishop of Clogher
church	Roman Catholic Church
see	Clogher
term	1643–1650
predecessor	Eugene Matthews
successor	Patrick Duffy
birth_date	1600
birth_place	Inniskeen
death_date	July or September 1650
previous_post	Bishop of Down and Connor

Heber MacMahon (Irish Éimhear Mac Mathúna) (1600 – 1650) was bishop of Clogher and general in Ulster. He was educated at the Irish college, Douay, and at Louvain, and ordained a Roman Catholic priest 1625. He became bishop of Clogher in 1643 and a leader among the confederate Catholics. As a general of the Ulster army, he fought Oliver Cromwell at the Battle of Scarrifholis in 1650. He was defeated, taken prisoner and executed the same year.

Biography

MacMahon was born in 1600 on the island of Inniskeen in what is now County Monaghan. He received his early education at the Franciscan Monastery in Kiltybegs, Monaghan. He went to the Irish College at Douai in 1617 and later to Leuven. He was ordained a priest in 1625 and appointed as Vicar apostolic of the Diocese of Clogher by a papal brief on 17 November 1627. Fifteen years later, he was appointed Bishop of Down and Connor on 10 March 1642. He played a prominent part in the Irish Catholic Confederation in Kilkenny.

He was appointed Bishop of Clogher in June 1643. or 17 September 1650.

After his death, Philip Crolly was appointed vicar apostolic to administer the diocese of Clogher in 1651, and the next bishop was Patrick Duffy who was appointed in 1671.

Notes

References

Lee, Sidney (1903), Dictionary of National Biography Index and Epitome, p. 882 (also main entry DNB xxxv. 225).

References

Also known as '''Ever MacMahon''' and '''Emer MacMahon''' and also latinised as '''Emerus Matthaeus'''. (Lee p. 822)
Lee p. 822
{{CathEncy
Fryde, E. B.. (1986). "Handbook of British Chronology". Cambridge University Press.
"Bishop Heber MacMahon (McMahon)". [[Catholic-Hierarchy]].

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